World Quotes - Page 478

Ideas control the world.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family, friends, or lovers - to say nothing of one's children - to live according to the world's definitions: one must find a way, perpetually, to be stronger and better than that.

If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I understand things. It's arranged along informal lines.

Today, I would describe a preistess as a woman who lives in two worlds at once, who perceives life on earth against a backdrop of a vast, timeless, reality.

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

The artist is the world's scapegoat.

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

That's really all I want, to be able to change the world with my voice.

The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.

Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.

It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.

When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.

Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!

The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.

You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.

The standard of the world, and the standard of the Lord Jesus, are indeed widely different. They are more than different. They are flatly contradictory one to the other.

There is more to be learned at the foot of the Cross than anywhere else in the world.

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.

Today three-quarters of the Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million Palestinian refugees throughout the world.

When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in the walls might be fatal, every point must be defended to the death.

What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled with breadlines and hospitals, in which nobody retained the natural power of a human being to help himself or to resist having things done to him. And that is precisely the world that the humanitarian arranges when he gets his way.

Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.

They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

You've got 3 minutes to tell the world something. Are you going to talk to them about being wasted in your front yard because you couldn't park your car, or are you going to talk to someone about something that could actually help them?